Gutierrez Scores In Argentine Win Over France in Marseilles

Written by Dr. Ed Harrison

11:26am Thursday, February 12th, 2009

Commented 26 times

Newcastle’s Argentine International Jonas Gutierrez scored his first ever goal for Argentina last night as they maintained their 100% record under Diego Maradona, with a fine 2-0 victory over France in Marseilles.

Barcelona’s world-class Lionel Messi then scored a second in the 83rd minute, as he waltzed through the French defense, before shooting home to seal a great win for the former World Champions.

It was Gutierrez’s 8th cap for the Argentine side having made his debut, also against France, almost two years ago to the day. Fabricio Coloccini, the Newcastle center-back, was omitted form the squad for this game.

Gutierrez is still to score his first goal for the Tyneside club.

Damien Duff played the full 90 minutes as Republic of Ireland, and set up ther first goal for Robbie Keane, who also scored a penalty in Ireland’s 2-1 win over Georgia in a World Cup qualifier in Dublin.

Geremi also scored for Cameroon in their 3-1 success for Cameroon as they met Guinea in a friendly match in Paris.

It was Geremi’s 100th cap for his country, and his 9th international goal.

26 comments so far

lets hope he scores few for us this season. We don’t expect him to score many but if he scores 2-3 goals till end of season that will be bonus. And I guess with experience he will become better in coming seasons. Com’on Jonas, score one in next game for us.

Troy – yeah fair point but remember milner is playing for villa who are as a team more likely to create and score goals due to the higher overall quality so milner is more likely to have goals scored and assists, though i agree with you in principle.

pretty much sums it up, however milner is doing better atm and so do villa, the best position they ever been, but guiterez is not doing bad either for a team thats all over the place like us, and his in the argentina squad for a reason, given ample time he just could get better, but yeah we shouldnt get carried away just because he scored

sorry man, it is not so simple like more goals and assists in one season = better player, you can write something like this after 100 matches for a club, not one season.. Milner is good player, but not excellent, sorry but there are hundreds better players around, his advantage is workrate, loyality, willness but he is not going to be somebody worth 12m..

People who doubt that Jonas is better than Milner have to let their eyes checked. Okay Jonas his crosses are not always good (which is the only thing that the 2 have in common)

These parts of the game is something Jonas is so much better than Milner: 1. passion 2. defensive work 3. dribbling (Jonas driblles but is also able to hold his head up; Milner dribbles and keeps dribbling untill he doesn’t know where he is anymore).

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